Redistricting

This undated photo released by the Susan Crawford campaign shows Dane County Circuit Judge Susan Crawford, the Democratic-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court in the Dane County Courthouse in Madison, Wis. (Susan Crawford for Wisconsin via AP)

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate criticized for attending briefing with Democratic donors

The liberal candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court participated in a briefing with Democratic donors billed as a “chance to put two more House seats in play.”

Patricia Jackson, 74, of Cincinnati, votes on Election Day at the Church of Our Savior, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in the Mount Auburn neighborhood of Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)

Ohio voters reject replacing troubled mapmaking system with citizen-led redistricting commission

FILE - Advocates who believe that newly drawn Ohio legislative maps remain heavily gerrymandered rally outside the Ohio Supreme Court, Dec. 8, 2021, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins, File)

Ohio’s fall redistricting issue sparked a fight over one word. So what is ‘gerrymandering,’ anyway?

FILE - The Tennessee Capitol is seen in Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

Plaintiffs won’t revive federal lawsuit over Tennessee’s redistricting maps

FILE - Members of the Ohio Ballot Board convene at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 16, 2024, to consider language for a fall redistricting amendment. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth, File)

Ohio Supreme Court clears ballot language saying anti-gerrymandering measure calls for the opposite

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Ohio officials approve language saying anti-gerrymandering measure calls for the opposite

FILE - The Tennessee House of Representatives meets, Oct. 27, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Judges dismiss suit alleging Tennessee’s political maps discriminate against communities of color

Members of the Ohio Ballot Board convene at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, to consider language for a fall redistricting amendment. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)

Ohio lawsuit seeks rewrite of redistricting ballot language dubbed ‘biased, inaccurate, deceptive’

Citizens Not Politicians attorney Don McTigue addresses members of the Ohio Ballot Board at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)

Backers of Ohio redistricting measure vow lawsuit over ballot language they call ‘deceitful’

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine points to a map during a press conference in Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday, July 31, 2024, where he opposed a fall ballot measure aimed at remaking the state's troubled political mapmaking system. If it passes, DeWine said he will work with state lawmakers next year to advance a competing amendment based on the Iowa model. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)

GOP Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine opposes fall ballot effort to replace troubled political mapmaking system

FILE - Volunteers with Citizens Not Politicians deliver petitions to change Ohio's troubled political mapmaking system from citizens around the state of Ohio at Secretary of State Frank LaRose's office, July 1, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. A proposal to change Ohio’s troubled political mapmaking system has qualified for November's statewide ballot, the state's elections chief announced Tuesday, July 23. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos, File)

Proposal to create a new political mapmaking system in Ohio qualifies for November ballot

FILE - Mississippi state Sens. Rod Hickman, D-Macon, left, Michael McLendon, R-Hernando, second from left, Albert Butler, D-Port Gibson, and David Jordan, D-Greenwood, review an alternate Senate redistricting map at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Miss., March 29, 2022. Three federal judges ruled Tuesday, July 2, 2024, that Mississippi legislators must redraw some state House and Senate districts because the districts adopted in 2022 dilute Black voting power. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Mississippi can wait to reset legislative districts that dilute Black voting strength, judges say

FILE - A version of a proposed Mississippi Senate redistricting map is displayed on a computer monitor at the state Capitol in Jackson, March 29, 2022. Three federal judges Tuesday, July 2, 2024, ordered Mississippi legislators to redraw some state House and Senate districts, finding that the districts adopted in 2022 diminished Black voting strength in parts of the state. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Mississippi must move quickly on a court-ordered redistricting, say voting rights attorneys

FILE - Attorney Taylor Meehan presents an argument for the state for a case challenging the state's congressional districts before the Utah Supreme Court, July 11, 2023, in Salt Lake City. On Thursday, July 11, 2024, Utah's Supreme Court handed a victory to opponents of redistricting that carved up Democratic-leaning Salt Lake County among four congressional districts that have since elected Republicans by wide margins. (Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, Pool, File)

Utah Supreme Court sides with opponents of redistricting that carved up Democratic-leaning area

Volunteers with Citizens Not Politicians load boxes of signed petitions to Secretary of State Frank LaRose's office on Monday, July 1, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. Backers of a proposal to change Ohio's troubled political mapmaking system delivered hundreds of thousands of signatures on Monday as they work to qualify for the statewide ballot this fall. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)

Campaign to get new political mapmaking system on Ohio’s ballot submits more than 700,000 signatures

Trial judges dismiss North Carolina redistricting lawsuit over right to ‘fair elections’

Wisconsin taxpayers to pay half the cost of redistricting consultants hired by Supreme Court

FILE - The North Carolina state House reviews copies of a map proposal for new state House districts during a committee hearing at the Legislative Office Building in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. North Carolina judges deciding whether a redistricting lawsuit claiming a state constitutional right to “fair" elections can go to trial questioned Thursday their ability to scrutinize district boundaries that way or to define what “fair” means. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum, File)

North Carolina judges grapple with defining ‘fair’ elections in redistricting suit

Gov. Tim Walz is photographed in the press room at the State Capitol, on March 13, 2024, in St. Paul, Minn. Minnesota has joined a growing list of states that plan to count prisoners at their home addresses instead of at the prison or jail they’re located when drawing new political districts. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski, File)

Minnesota joins growing list of states counting inmates at home instead of prisons for redistricting

FILE - The U.S. Supreme Court is seen, April 25, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Supreme Court finds no bias against Black voters in a South Carolina congressional district

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2017, file photo, Thomas Farr is sworn in during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination to be a District Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Farr, a longtime redistricting and election law attorney, usually defending Republican interests but whose 2018 federal judgeship nomination got scuttled when two GOP senators opposed his confirmation, has died, a legal colleague said Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

North Carolina redistricting attorney who fell short in federal confirmation fight dies at 69

Appeals panel won’t order North Carolina Senate redistricting lines to be redrawn

Editorial Roundup: Ohio

Editorial Roundup: New York

Editorial Roundup: New York

FILE - A maintenance worker cleans a sign outside the New York state Capitol as Assembly members return Tuesday, June 20, 2023, in Albany, N.Y. The New York state Legislature on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, approved a Democrat-drawn congressional map that gives the party a modest boost in a few battleground districts, helping their candidates in a heavily contested election year when House races in the state could determine control of Congress. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

New York gets a new congressional map that gives Democrats a slight edge in fight for House

FILE - The New York state Senate meets in the Senate Chamber on the opening day of the legislative session at the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on Jan. 8, 2020. Democrats in the New York Legislature on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, rejected a congressional map drawn by the state's bipartisan redistricting commission, setting the stage for the party to craft lines that help Democrats in battleground House races that could determine control of Congress. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

New York Democrats propose new congressional lines that could help them in battleground races

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers shows new signed legislative maps Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, at the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. Evers signed new legislative district maps into law that he proposed and that the Republicans who control the Legislature passed to avoid having the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court draw the lines.(Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)

Redistricting experts submit $128K bill for review of Wisconsin legislative maps

FILE - The New York state Senate meets in the Senate Chamber on the opening day of the legislative session at the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on Jan. 8, 2020. Democrats in the New York Legislature on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, rejected a congressional map drawn by the state's bipartisan redistricting commission, setting the stage for the party to craft lines that help Democrats in battleground House races that could determine control of Congress. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

New York Democrats reject bipartisan congressional map, will draw their own

FILE - Snow covers the exterior of the New York state Capitol on Jan. 16, 2024, in Albany, N.Y. New York’s bipartisan redistricting commission approved a new congressional map Thursday, Feb. 15, that makes modest changes to three competitive districts but does not substantially change the rest of the state's lines. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

New York redistricting panel approves new congressional map with modest changes

Federal judges sound hesitant to overturn ruling on North Carolina Senate redistricting

Attorney Chuck Hatfield makes an argument on state Senate voting districts before the Missouri Supreme Court, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, in Jefferson City, Mo.. A divided Missouri Supreme Court upheld voting districts used for state Senate elections on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, rejecting a legal challenge that claimed mapmakers should have placed a greater emphasis on keeping communities intact. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb, File)

Missouri high court upholds voting districts drawn for state Senate

Editorial Roundup: Illinois

FILE - A man walks by the Wisconsin Capitol, Oct. 10, 2012, in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin Republicans urged the state Supreme Court on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, to ignore a report from redistricting consultants that determined GOP proposed legislative maps were unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)

Wisconsin Republicans urge state Supreme Court to reject redistricting report’s findings

FILE - Voters fill in their ballots at at Precinct 5 at Wood Activity & Therapeutic Center in Clinton, Miss., during the general election, Nov. 7, 2023. Since most Americans last voted for Congress, thousands of people have been added to certain voting districts — and subtracted from others — under new political maps enacted following court rulings. (Barbara Gauntt/The Clarion-Ledger via AP, file)

Court cases lead to new voting districts in some states. Could it affect control of Congress?